Critical News is the Best News

As I was searching for the video of the very popular Luge accident from the Olympics, I noticed that ABC.com’s most popular videos, are all but funny. Unlike YouTube, these videos had something to do with some type of tragedy. Number one was the Luge accident, followed by some newly released pictures of 9/11, down to a woman being gunned down by her stalker. A very sad cluster of media but it got me thinking, why do we as Americans, seem to be drawn to everyone else’s mishaps, deaths, and recapturing life changing tragedies?  http://abcnews.go.com/video/video?id=9823485&autostart=false

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3 Responses to “Critical News is the Best News”

  1. dkois says:
    February 15, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Please give us links to these videos too. This is an interesting point — what’s popular in news video is not at all what’s popular on, say, YouTube or FunnyOrDie.

  2. arenelacy says:
    February 15, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Update: Link to videos has been added to this post

  3. scooperd says:
    February 18, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    I wrote a paper on this last week, on how we have this inexplicable desire to see pain. For some reason, we do not know why, we like to see other people’s suffering and in this case the luge accident from the Olympics the the other night was on of the most popular videos on ABC.com.

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